Mary Pickersgill made the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write what became the National Anthem

Peter Jennings, one of James Madison's slaves, helped Dolley Madison save government documents and Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington as the British prepared to burn Washington. Click here to read his biography

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